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Re: SCO experiences
- To: "Bill Walker" <bw at student dot ecok dot edu>
- Subject: Re: SCO experiences
- From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf dot utfsm dot cl>
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 15:13:23 -0400
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
"Bill Walker" <bw@student.ecok.edu> said:
> Experience 1:
>
> I used the new compiler to build emacs 20.1, just to see what would happen.
> It compiled fine, but produced a code file (ELF) about 500K larger than
> 970907 does. I don't know why, yet.
Did you use -fno-exceptions? The (totally useless to C) exception handling
management makes executables _way_ bigger.
Try emacs-20.2 (20.1 gets zombies when trying to go to another MH folder;
20.2 cures that)
> Experience 5:
>
> The egcs project seems to be a useful one, and the dedicated folks
> involved seem both pleasant and highly competent. I am really glad to
> see this kind of talent and interaction on such an important project.
>
> Heartfelt congratulations to the entire team, and I encourage you
> to keep up the wonderful work you have begun.
Seconded.
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